Microsoft R Client

Use the stock CRAN R interpreter, or the enhanced Microsoft R Client and its ScaleR functions that support multi-core and cluster computing for practicing data science at scale.

Visual Studio Team Services

Integrated support for git, continuous integration, agile tools, release management, testing, reporting, bug and work-item tracking through Visual Studio Team Services. Use our hosted service or host it yourself privately.

Remoting

Whether it’s data governance, security, or running large jobs on a powerful server, RTVS workspaces enable setting up your own R server or connecting to one in the cloud.

The road ahead

We’re very excited to officially bring another language to the Visual Studio family! Along with Python Tools for Visual Studio, you have the two main languages for tackling most any analytics and ML related challenge. In the near future (~May), we’ll release RTVS for Visual Studio 2017 as well. We’ll also resurrect the “Data Science workload” in VS2017 which gives you R, Python, F# and all their respective package distros in one convenient install. Beyond that, we’re looking forward to hearing from you on what features we should focus on next! R package development? Mixed R+C debugging? Model deployment? VS Code/R for cross-platform development? Let us know at the RTVS Github repository!